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Stumbled across this little app today IOgraph and the tag line “Do your business, Do art” tickled my fancy, so I decided to give it a whirl this afternoon.

being creative while writing code…

Now you should too!

The unofficial Google Shell… I like it!

After a full day of messages going backwards and forwards between myself and our firewall admins, here’s a gem of a post with a script to restrict the port range used by passive FTP on Windows 2003 server (as well as telling Windows Firewall to leave those ports open). Who would have thought securing FTP would be so involved…

Courtesy of Slashdot, news that Network Solutions are front running domain names. I don’t care much for their response that this is to protect us, the customer, from evil do-ers. Especially when they charge a premium ($34.99) for their domain names, whereas services like Go Daddy offer them for $9.99. Way to go Network Solutions!!

… to one and all.

New year, new look, search engine friendly URLs, fresh apache 2 install, ditto for MySQL. Add to that an additional 20% of RAM (thank you Linode!!), all in all a good start to the new year, promises to be a good one.

Great image courtesy of  Coding Horror:

Entitled “Communal juice glass, Moscow, 1990“. Brings back memories of my time spent studying and working in Russia, many, many moons ago. The site has a great collection of shop front photos from the communist era.

A bit late to the game, but to save me looking these up again, here are a couple of links with some great explanations on how to use the Google Maps API and the Geocoding functionality:

• Google Maps API Tutorial
• Rails, Geocoding, and Google Maps
• Google maps mania

UPDATE

Nick Tong sent through this link by email, which is specific to UK based Geocoding, however it also contains a wealth of additional information:
UK Geocoding Now Available in the Maps API

Probably an old hat for most, but I just stumbled across this post from Kottke. Classic!